POLICE BRIEFS

LANCASTER -- Police are looking for an unknown man after they were told he pointed a bow and arrow at a boy Wednesday along the 800 block of Washington Avenue.

Police were called after a neighborhood boy and his father were outside in the yard around 4:49 p.m. Wednesday. The boy noticed a window open in a vacant home and pointed it out to his father, according to a Lancaster police report. When the boy said the "window is open," a man looked out and pointed a bow and arrow at the boy, according to the report.

Police were unable to find anyone inside the home, but they did find fresh blankets and sheets, according to the report.

Residents in the area have reported seeing a man and a woman in the vacant home on several occasions.

The incident remains under investigation.

CLEARCREEK TOWNSHIP -- A Clarksburg woman was taken to Berger Hospital in Circleville after a car crash Monday.

Robert L. Burke, 63, of Clarksburg, was traveling west along U.S. 22. Sean M. Tussing, 37, of Circleville, was traveling east on U.S. 22 and attempting to turn left on Ohio 674 around 8 p.m., according to an Ohio Highway Patrol report. Tussing failed to yield and struck Burke's vehicle, according to the report.